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A dildo is a sex toy, often explicitly phallic in appearance, intended for sexual penetration or other sexual activity during masturbation or with sex partners. Dildos can be made from a number of materials and shaped like an erect human penis. They are typically 10-15cm in length, about the average length of an erect penis, but some may be longer, and circumference is typically 4-5cm.

History

Dildos in one form or another have existed widely in history. Artifacts from the Upper Paleolithic of a type called bâton de commandement have been speculated to have been used for sexual purposes.^[1] Few archaeologists consider these items as sex toys, but archaeologist Timothy Taylor put it, "Looking at the size, shape, and—some cases—explicit symbolism of the ice age batons, it seems disingenuous to avoid the most obvious and straightforward interpretation. But it has been avoided."^[2]^[3]

The first dildos were made of stone, tar, wood, bone, ivory, limestone, teeth, and other materials that could be shaped as penises and that were firm enough to be used as penetrative sex toys. Scientists believe that a 20-centimeter siltstone phallus from the Upper Palaeolithic period 30,000 years ago, found in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm, Germany, may have been used as a dildo.^[4]^[5] Prehistoric double-headed dildos have been found which date anywhere from 13-19,000 years ago. Various paintings from ancient Egypt around 3000 BCE feature dildos being used in a variety of ways. In medieval times, a plant called the “cantonese groin” was soaked in hot water to enlarge and harden for women to use as dildos. Dildo-like breadsticks, known as olisbokollikes were known in Ancient Greece prior to the 5th century BC.^[6] In Italy during the 1400s, dildos were made of leather, wood, or stone.^[7] Chinese women in the 15th century used dildos made of lacquered wood with textured surfaces, and were sometimes buried with them. The Choice of Valentines mentions a dildo made from glass. Dildos also appeared in 17th and 18th century Japan, in shunga. In these erotic novels, women are shown enthusiastically buying dildos, some made out of water buffalo horns.

Dildos were not just used for sexual pleasure. Examples from the Eurasia Ice Age (40,000-10,000 BCE) and Roman era are speculated to have been used for defloration rituals. This isn't the only example of dildos being used for ritual ceremonies, as people in 4000 BCE Pakistan used them to worship the god Shiva.

Many references to dildos exist in the historical and ethnographic literature. Haberlandt for example, illustrates single and double penetration dildos from late 19th century Zanzibar.

Ancient Greece

Some art work from ancient Greece shows dildos beingh used in group sex or in solitary female masturbation. One vessel, of about the sixth century BCE, depicts a scene in which a woman bends over to perform oral sex on a man, while another man is about to thrust a dildo into her anus.

They are mentioned several times in Aristophanes comedy of 411 BCE, Lysistrata.

Greek dildos were often made out of leather stuffed with wool in order to give it varying degrees of thickness and firmness. They were often lubricated with olive oil, and used for sexual practice and other activities. The Greeks were also one of the first groups to use the term “toy” in reference to a dildo.

Early modern period

In the early 1590s, the English playwright Thomas Nashe wrote a poem known as The Choice of Valentines, Nashe's Dildo or The Merrie Ballad of Nashe his Dildo. This was not printed at the time, due to its obscenity^[8] but it was still widely circulated and made Nashe's name notorious. The poem describes a visit to a brothel by a man called "Tomalin"; he is searching for his sweetheart, Francis, who has become a prostitute. The only way he can see her is to hire her. However, she resorts to using a glass dildo as he finds himself unable to perform sexually to her satisfaction.

Dildos are humorously mentioned in Act IV, scene iv of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. This play and Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist (1610) are typically cited as the first use of the word in publication (Nashe's Merrie Ballad was not published until 1899).

Many other works of bawdy and satirical English literature of the period deal with the subject. Dildoides: A Burlesque Poem (London, 1706), attributed to Samuel Butler, is a mock lament to a collection of dildos that had been seized and publicly burnt by the authorities. Examples of anonymous works include The Bauble, a tale (London, 1721) and Monsieur Thing's Origin: or Seignor D---o's Adventures in London, (London, 1722). In 1746, Henry Fielding wrote The Female Husband: or the surprising history of Mrs Mary, alias Mr. George Hamilton, in which a woman posing as a man uses a dildo. This was a fictionalized account of the story of Mary Hamilton.

Recent times

In the 21st century feminists have argued that dildos were designed by men and that sex toys designed by women deprioritise sexual penetration.^[9]^[10] This would appear to be at odds with the many thousands of years in which dildos were designed and manufactured primarily for the enjoyment of women.

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References

↑ Marshack, A. 1972 The Roots of Civilization McGraw-Hill New York: 333
↑ Taylor, T. 1996. The Prehistory of Sex. New York: Bantam. p. 128.
↑ Paul L. Vasey, Intimate Sexual Relations in Prehistory: Lessons from the Japanese Macaques. World Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 3, Intimate Relations (Feb., 1998), pp. 407-425
↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4713323.stm
↑ https://allthatsinteresting.com/history-of-the-dildo
↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=AW_g7e0QXBkC&pg=PT111&lpg=PT111&dq=olisbo-kollix
↑ https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/10/history-female-sex-toys-dildos-rampant-rabbits_n_4760274.html
↑ http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2011/02/14/the-choise-of-valentines-or-the-merie-ballad-of-nash-his-dildo/
↑ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-13/sex-toy-innovations-sit-comfortably-in-female-hands/10981458
↑ https://thenextweb.com/tech/2018/12/19/female-founded-companies-are-making-better-sex-toys-and-confronting-taboos/

[1] Marshack, A. 1972 The Roots of Civilization McGraw-Hill New York: 333

[taylor_prehistory-2] Taylor, T. 1996. The Prehistory of Sex. New York: Bantam. p. 128.

[macaques-3] Paul L. Vasey, Intimate Sexual Relations in Prehistory: Lessons from the Japanese Macaques. World Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 3, Intimate Relations (Feb., 1998), pp. 407-425

[4] ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4713323.stm

[5] ttps://allthatsinteresting.com/history-of-the-dildo

[6] ttps://books.google.com/books?id=AW_g7e0QXBkC&pg=PT111&lpg=PT111&dq=olisbo-kollix

[7] ttps://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/10/history-female-sex-toys-dildos-rampant-rabbits_n_4760274.html

[8] ttp://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2011/02/14/the-choise-of-valentines-or-the-merie-ballad-of-nash-his-dildo/

[9] ttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-13/sex-toy-innovations-sit-comfortably-in-female-hands/10981458

[10] ttps://thenextweb.com/tech/2018/12/19/female-founded-companies-are-making-better-sex-toys-and-confronting-taboos/

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 A '''dildo''' is a sex toy, often explicitly phallic in appearance, intended for sexual penetration or other sexual activity during masturbation or with sex partners. Dildos can be made from a number of materials and shaped like an erect human penis. They are typically 10-15cm in length, about the average length of an erect penis, but some may be longer, and circumference is typically 4-5cm.
-===History===
+== History ==
-Dildos in one form or another have existed widely in history. Artifacts from the Upper Paleolithi] of a type called bâton de commandement have been speculated to have been used for sexual purposes.<ref>Marshack, A. 1972 The Roots of Civilization ''McGraw-Hill New York:'' 333</ref>  Few archaeologists consider these items as sex toys, but archaeologist Timothy Taylor put it, "Looking at the size, shape, and—some cases—explicit symbolism of the ice age batons, it seems disingenuous to avoid the most obvious and straightforward interpretation. But it has been avoided."<ref name='taylor_prehistory'>Taylor, T. 1996. ''The Prehistory of Sex.'' New York: Bantam.  p. 128.</ref><ref name='macaques'>Paul L. Vasey, ''Intimate Sexual Relations in Prehistory: Lessons from the Japanese Macaques.''  World Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 3, Intimate Relations (Feb., 1998), pp. 407-425</ref>
+Dildos in one form or another have existed widely in history. Artifacts from the Upper Paleolithic of a type called bâton de commandement have been speculated to have been used for sexual purposes.<ref>Marshack, A. 1972 The Roots of Civilization ''McGraw-Hill New York:'' 333</ref>  Few archaeologists consider these items as sex toys, but archaeologist Timothy Taylor put it, "Looking at the size, shape, and—some cases—explicit symbolism of the ice age batons, it seems disingenuous to avoid the most obvious and straightforward interpretation. But it has been avoided."<ref name='taylor_prehistory'>Taylor, T. 1996. ''The Prehistory of Sex.'' New York: Bantam.  p. 128.</ref><ref name='macaques'>Paul L. Vasey, ''Intimate Sexual Relations in Prehistory: Lessons from the Japanese Macaques.''  World Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 3, Intimate Relations (Feb., 1998), pp. 407-425</ref>
-The first dildos were made of stone, tar, wood, bone, ivory, limestone, teeth, and other materials that could be shaped as penises and that were firm enough to be used as penetrative sex toys. Scientists believe that a 20-centimeter siltstone phallus from the Upper Palaeolithic period 30,000 years ago, found in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm, Germany, may have been used as a dildo.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4713323.stm</ref> Prehistoric double-headed dildos have been found which date anywhere from 13-19,000 years ago. Various paintings from ancient Egypt around 3000 BCE feature dildos being used in a variety of ways. In medieval times, a plant called the “cantonese groin” was soaked in hot water to enlarge and harden for women to use as dildos. Dildo-like [[breadstick]]s, known as ''olisbokollikes'' were known in Ancient Greece prior to the 5th century BC.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=AW_g7e0QXBkC&pg=PT111&lpg=PT111&dq=olisbo-kollix</ref> In Italy during the 1400s, dildos were made of leather, wood, or stone.<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/10/history-female-sex-toys-dildos-rampant-rabbits_n_4760274.html</ref> Chinese women in the 15th century used dildos made of lacquered wood with textured surfaces, and were sometimes buried with them.  ''The Choice of Valentines'' mentions a dildo made from glass.  Dildos also appeared in 17th and 18th century Japan, in [[shunga]]. In these erotic novels, women are shown enthusiastically buying dildos, some made out of water buffalo horns.
+The first dildos were made of stone, tar, wood, bone, ivory, limestone, teeth, and other materials that could be shaped as penises and that were firm enough to be used as penetrative sex toys. Scientists believe that a 20-centimeter siltstone phallus from the Upper Palaeolithic period 30,000 years ago, found in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm, Germany, may have been used as a dildo.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4713323.stm</ref><ref>https://allthatsinteresting.com/history-of-the-dildo</ref> Prehistoric double-headed dildos have been found which date anywhere from 13-19,000 years ago. Various paintings from ancient Egypt around 3000 BCE feature dildos being used in a variety of ways. In medieval times, a plant called the “cantonese groin” was soaked in hot water to enlarge and harden for women to use as dildos. Dildo-like breadsticks, known as ''olisbokollikes'' were known in Ancient Greece prior to the 5th century BC.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=AW_g7e0QXBkC&pg=PT111&lpg=PT111&dq=olisbo-kollix</ref> In Italy during the 1400s, dildos were made of leather, wood, or stone.<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/10/history-female-sex-toys-dildos-rampant-rabbits_n_4760274.html</ref> Chinese women in the 15th century used dildos made of lacquered wood with textured surfaces, and were sometimes buried with them.  ''The Choice of Valentines'' mentions a dildo made from glass.  Dildos also appeared in 17th and 18th century Japan, in shunga. In these erotic novels, women are shown enthusiastically buying dildos, some made out of water buffalo horns.
-Dildos were not just used for sexual pleasure. Examples from the Eurasia Ice Age (40,000-10,000 BCE) and Roman era are speculated to have been used for defloration rituals. This isn't the only example of dildos being used for ritual ceremonies, as people in 4000 BCE Pakistan used them to worship the god [[Shiva]].<ref name=":0" />
+Dildos were not just used for sexual pleasure. Examples from the Eurasia Ice Age (40,000-10,000 BCE) and Roman era are speculated to have been used for defloration rituals. This isn't the only example of dildos being used for ritual ceremonies, as people in 4000 BCE Pakistan used them to worship the god Shiva.
-Many references to dildos exist in the [[history|historical]] and [[ethnography|ethnographic]] literature. Haberlandt,<ref>Haberlandt, M. 1899. "Conträre Sexual-Erscheinungen bei der Neger-Bevölkerung Zanzibars", ''Zeitschrift für Ethnologie'', 31: 668–670</ref> for example, illustrates single and [[double penetration dildo|double-ended wooden dildos]] from late 19th century [[Zanzibar]]. With the invention of modern materials, making dildos of different shapes, sizes, colors and textures became more practical.<ref>http://bestdildo.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Interesting-Facts-about-your-Favorite-Sex-Toys.pdf</ref>
+Many references to dildos exist in the historical and ethnographic literature. Haberlandt for example, illustrates single and double penetration dildos from late 19th century Zanzibar.
-====Ancient Greece====
+=== Ancient Greece ===
+Some art work from ancient Greece shows dildos beingh used in group sex or in solitary female masturbation.  One vessel, of about the sixth century BCE, depicts a scene in which a woman bends over to perform oral sex on a man, while another man is about to thrust a dildo into her anus.
-[[File:Pittore dell'angelo volante (attr.), anfora con falli-uccello e ragazza con un fallo, 490 ac. ca. 04.JPG|thumb|right|A woman with a dildo. [[Red-figure pottery|Red figure]] amphora attributed to the [[List of Greek vase painters|Flying-Angel Painter]] c. 490 BC; [[Petit Palais|City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts]]]]
-[[File:Édouard-Henri Avril (27).jpg|thumb|Dildo being used by two women. Lithograph from ''[[De Figuris Veneris]]'' (1906) by [[Édouard-Henri Avril]]]]
-Dildos may be seen in some examples of [[Pottery of ancient Greece|ancient Greek vase art]]. Some pieces show their use in group sex or in solitary female masturbation.  One vessel, of about the sixth century BCE, depicts a scene in which a woman bends over to perform [[oral sex]] on a man, while another man is about to thrust a dildo into her [[anal sex|anus]].
-They are mentioned several times in [[Aristophanes]]' comedy of 411 BCE, ''[[Lysistrata]]''.
+They are mentioned several times in Aristophanes comedy of 411 BCE, [[Lysistrata]].
-Greek dildos were often made out of leather stuffed with wool in order to give it varying degrees of thickness and firmness. They were often lubricated with olive oil, and used for sexual practice and other activities. The Greeks were also one of the first groups to use the term “toy” in reference to a dildo.<ref name=":0" />
+Greek dildos were often made out of leather stuffed with wool in order to give it varying degrees of thickness and firmness. They were often lubricated with olive oil, and used for sexual practice and other activities. The Greeks were also one of the first groups to use the term “toy” in reference to a dildo.
-====Early modern period====
+=== Early modern period ===
-In the early 1590s, the English playwright [[Thomas Nashe]] wrote a poem known as ''[[The Choice of Valentines]]'', ''Nashe's Dildo'' or ''The Merrie Ballad of Nashe his Dildo''. This was not printed at the time, due to its obscenity<ref name="coulthart">{{cite web | url=http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2011/02/14/the-choise-of-valentines-or-the-merie-ballad-of-nash-his-dildo/ | title=The Choise of Valentines, Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo | publisher=www.johncoulthart.com | date=Feb 14, 2011 | accessdate=July 10, 2011 | author=Coulthart, John}}</ref> but it was still widely circulated and made Nashe's name notorious.<ref name="Haynes" /> The poem describes a visit to a brothel by a man called "Tomalin"; he is searching for his sweetheart, Francis, who has become a prostitute. The only way he can see her is to hire her. However, she resorts to using a glass dildo as he finds himself unable to perform sexually to her satisfaction.<ref>{{cite book | title=Madams - Bawds & Brothel-Keepers of London | publisher=The History Press Ltd | author=Linnane, Fergus | year=2005 | pages=16 | isbn=0-7509-3306-2}}</ref>
+In the early 1590s, the English playwright Thomas Nashe wrote a poem known as ''The Choice of Valentines'', ''Nashe's Dildo'' or ''The Merrie Ballad of Nashe his Dildo''. This was not printed at the time, due to its obscenity<ref>http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2011/02/14/the-choise-of-valentines-or-the-merie-ballad-of-nash-his-dildo/</ref> but it was still widely circulated and made Nashe's name notorious.  The poem describes a visit to a brothel by a man called "Tomalin"; he is searching for his sweetheart, Francis, who has become a prostitute. The only way he can see her is to hire her. However, she resorts to using a glass dildo as he finds himself unable to perform sexually to her satisfaction.
-Dildos are humorously mentioned in Act IV, scene iv of Shakespeare's ''[[The Winter's Tale]]''. This play and [[Ben Jonson]]'s play ''[[The Alchemist (play)|The Alchemist]]'' (1610) are typically cited as the first use of the word in publication (Nashe's ''Merrie Ballad'' was not published until 1899).<ref name="coulthart" />
+Dildos are humorously mentioned in Act IV, scene iv of Shakespeare's ''The Winter's Tale''. This play and Ben Jonson's play ''The Alchemist'' (1610) are typically cited as the first use of the word in publication (Nashe's ''Merrie Ballad'' was not published until 1899).
-[[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester|John Wilmot]], the seventeenth-century English [[libertine]], published his poem ''Signor Dildo'' in 1673. During the Parliamentary session of that year, objections were raised to the proposed marriage of [[James II of England|James, Duke of York]], brother of the King and heir to the throne, to [[Mary of Modena]], an Italian Catholic princess. An address was presented to [[Charles II of England|King Charles]] on 3 November, foreseeing the dangerous consequences of marriage to a Catholic, and urging him to put a stop to any planned wedding '...to the unspeakable Joy and Comfort of all Your loyal Subjects." Wilmot's response was ''[http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/dildo.html Signior Dildo (You ladies all of merry England)]'', a mock address anticipating the 'solid' advantages of a Catholic marriage, namely the wholesale importation of Italian dildos, to the unspeakable joy and comfort of all the ladies of England:
+Many other works of bawdy and satirical English literature of the period deal with the subject. ''Dildoides: A Burlesque Poem'' (London, 1706), attributed to Samuel Butler, is a mock lament to a collection of dildos that had been seized and publicly burnt by the authorities. Examples of anonymous works include ''The Bauble, a tale'' (London, 1721) and ''Monsieur Thing's Origin: or Seignor D---o's Adventures in London,'' (London, 1722). In 1746, Henry Fielding wrote ''The Female Husband: or the surprising history of Mrs Mary, alias Mr. George Hamilton'', in which a woman posing as a man uses a dildo. This was a fictionalized account of the story of [[Mary Hamilton]].
-:''You ladies all of merry England''
-:''Who have been to kiss the Duchess's hand,''
-:''Pray, did you not lately observe in the show''
-:''A noble Italian called Signor Dildo? ...''
+=== Recent times ===
-:''A rabble of pricks who were welcomed before'',
-:''Now finding the porter denied them the door,''
-:''Maliciously waited his coming below''
-:''And inhumanly fell on Signor Dildo ...''
+In the 21st century feminists have argued that dildos were designed by men and that sex toys designed by women deprioritise sexual penetration.<ref>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-13/sex-toy-innovations-sit-comfortably-in-female-hands/10981458</ref><ref>https://thenextweb.com/tech/2018/12/19/female-founded-companies-are-making-better-sex-toys-and-confronting-taboos/</ref> This would appear to be at odds with the many thousands of years in which dildos were designed and manufactured primarily for the enjoyment of women.
-This ballad was subsequently added to by other authors, and became so popular that ''Signor'' became a term for a dildo.<ref name="wilson" /> In the epilogue to ''[[The Mistaken Husband]]'' (1674), by [[John Dryden]], an actress complains:
+{{wikipedia}}
-:''To act with young boys is loving without men.''
-:''What will not poor forsaken women try?''
-:''When man's not near, the Signior must supply.''<ref name="wilson">{{cite book | title= Court satires of the Restorationd | last=  Wilson | first= John | year= 1976 | publisher=  Ohio State University Press| isbn= 978-0-8142-0249-4 |page=14|url=https://books.google.com/?id=0dXpt-fAcJMC&pg=PA14#v=onepage&q=}}</ref>
+== References ==
-'' Signor Dildo'' was more recently set to music by [[Michael Nyman]] for the Wilmot [[biopic]], ''[[The Libertine (2004 film)|The Libertine.]]''
-Many other works of bawdy and satirical English literature of the period deal with the subject. ''Dildoides: A Burlesque Poem'' (London, 1706), attributed to [[Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]], is a mock lament to a collection of dildos that had been seized and publicly burnt by the authorities. Examples of anonymous works include ''The Bauble, a tale'' (London, 1721) and ''Monsieur Thing's Origin: or Seignor D---o's Adventures in London,'' (London, 1722).<ref>Wagner (1987), p.53</ref> In 1746, [[Henry Fielding]] wrote ''The Female Husband: or the surprising history of Mrs Mary, alias Mr. George Hamilton'', in which a woman posing as a man uses a dildo. This was a fictionalized account of the story of [[Mary Hamilton (bigamist)|Mary Hamilton]].<ref>Wagner (1987), p.54</ref>
-====20th century====
-Dildos are obliquely referred to in [[Saul Bellow]]'s novel ''[[The Adventures of Augie March]]'' (1953): "....he had brought me along to a bachelor's stag where two naked acrobatic girls did stunts with false tools".<ref>Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March  New York: Penguin, 1953, 2001 . p. 252</ref> A dildo called ''Steely Dan III from Yokohama'' appears in the [[William S. Burroughs]] novel ''[[The Naked Lunch]]'' (1959).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.steelydan.com/mojo.html|title= The Return of Steely Dan|accessdate=December 15, 2006|work= [[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo Magazine]]|date=October 1995}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.steelydan.com/faq.html|title= Official Steely Dan FAQ|accessdate= January 18, 2007|archive-url= https://www.webcitation.org/64t7qffjJ?url=http://www.steelydan.com/faq.html|archive-date= January 22, 2012|url-status= dead}}</ref> The rock band [[Steely Dan]] took their name from it.
-====21st century====
-In 2017, [[dark web]] privacy researcher [[Sarah Jamie Lewis]] connected a vibrator (using [[reverse engineering]]) to [[Tor anonymity network|Tor]], the anonymity network, in a [[proof of concept]] demonstrating the applicability of privacy technology after the fact.<ref name="We Anonymously Controlled a Dildo Through the Tor Network">{{Cite web |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjnwgb/we-anonymously-controlled-a-dildo-through-the-tor-network |title=We Anonymously Controlled a Dildo Through the Tor Network |last=Cox |first=Joseph |date=2017-08-07 |website=Motherboard |access-date=2017-08-09}}</ref>
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